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RE-EVALUATING THE IDEA OF A MALAYSIAN ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY

TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

M. Surat, M. M. Tahir, I.M.S. Usman, , A.I. Che-Ani, N.A.G. Abdullah,

N.M. Tawil, R. Ismail, M.F.I. Md. Nor
Solar Energy Research Institute, UKM
mastor@vlsi.eng.ukm.my

Abstract: This paper suggests the rethinking on the approaches and architectural experimentation that had been conducted by the Malaysian
architectural profession towards the search for a national identity in architecture towards a sustainable community. The first part will discussed
on the attempt and discourse that had been conducted which involved the public and private sectors. Since achieving our independence,
architects, patrons and the public had conducted experimentation on the various approaches and aspects pertaining to the issue of a Malaysian
architectural identity through discourse, writings and architectural design. Comments and critiques were received from the public as well as
from architectural commentators and architectural historians from locals and abroad. It was critically claimed that architectural practice in
our country still lacks depth in its theoretical approach and weak in it construction implementation which lead to a crisis in the profession. The
crisis on the Built Environments’ education programmes over the last two decades also has led the professional practice of architecture having
reached sub standard level with no proper philosophical and theoretical approach. The failure on the quest for an identity in architecture for
the last four decades was attributed to architects and other implementers failing to disseminate the ideas and intentions to the grass roots level.
No records or evident can be found to support the notion that the ideas of searching for a national identity in architecture has been delivered to
grass root or public level. It is imperative that current generation of architects and implementers of the profession re-evaluating the idea and
making further mission successful.

Keywords: national identity in architecture, sustainable community, architectural crisis, re-evaluating of identity.

1 INTRODUCTION
The issue of a national identity has been a subject long
discussed ever since Malaysia gained its independence. A
national identity in architecture is also an abstract and
subjective topic to be discussed because it’s depends on
one’s individual perceptions and outlook. According to
Lukman Z. Mohammad (2001), each individual embrace
three types of identity throughout his life. Those are his
personal identity, ethnic identity and national identity. All
these three identities will not be embraced simultaneously.
Within the same ethnic group; he will compete and strive
for his own personal identity. Whilst in a diverse ethnic
cluster, he will compete for his ethnic identity and in the
global cluster pushes for his national identity. All these is
solely to establish individuality when compare with others.
An Architectural identity can also be discussed in the same
manner whilst referring to its context, place, time,
consumerism’s status etc.
This paper intends to discuss the issues related to the quest
for a national identity in Malaysia’s architecture. Early
discussion will look at various attempts, discourses,
approaches and design experimentation that have been
practice by Malaysian architects and other implementers
related to the profession. Noted during the process, crisis in
the profession of architecture, architectural practices and
build environments’ education programmes which led to
the failure of the mission. A lack of managing approach on
disseminating the ideas to the grass root has been identified
as one of the key the issues that made the mission a failure.
This idea has been stagnant for more than two decades
without any analysis conducted to look at its failure.
Therefore this paper suggests that all Malaysian architects
or anyone of a specific interest in the profession re-
examined the issue and rethink its objectives and
importance for the betterment of the architectural and built
environment development in our country.
The issue of a national identity has been a subject long
discussed ever since Malaysia gained its independence. A
national identity in architecture is also an abstract and
subjective topic to be discussed because it’s depends on
one’s individual perceptions and outlook. According to
Lukman Z. Mohammad (2001), each individual embrace
three types of identity throughout his life. Those are his
personal identity, ethnic identity and national identity. All
these three identities will not be embraced simultaneously.
Within the same ethnic group; he will compete and strive
for his own personal identity. Whilst in a diverse ethnic
cluster, he will compete for his ethnic identity and in the
global cluster pushes for his national identity. All these is
solely to establish individuality when compare with others.
An Architectural identity can also be discussed in the same
manner whilst referring to its context, place, time,
consumerism’s status etc.
This paper intends to discuss the issues related to the quest
for a national identity in Malaysia’s architecture. Early
discussion will look at various attempts, discourses,
approaches and design experimentation that have been
practice by Malaysian architects and other implementers
related to the profession. Noted during the process, crisis in
the profession of architecture, architectural practices and
build environments’ education programmes which led to the
failure of the mission. A lack of managing approach on

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disseminating the ideas to the grass root has been identified
as one of the key the issues that made the mission a failure.
This idea has been stagnant for more than two decades
without any analysis conducted to look at its failure.
Therefore this paper suggests that all Malaysian architects
or anyone of a specific interest in the profession re-
examined the issue and rethink its objectives and
importance for the betterment of the architectural and built
environment development in our country.
Looking at most architectural development on the threshold
of new millennium, it seems that not much control was
reflected on the architectural style and developments.
Eclectic architectural approaches with combination of styles
between India, Greek and Roman Classic, Turkey and
Persian, Postmodern, Nusantara and International had
rampantly contaminated the ideas of national identity.
Environmental, human and socio cultural factors as well as
context with ‘time and place’ no longer bear any
consideration in the architectural building design. The
elements of pride, richness, greatness, sophistication etc
became the preferred factors without take into consideration
the environment, human comfort, security, privacy and
accessibility to end users and persons with disability. The
search for a national identity in architecture no longer
became an important pursuit to be discussed and considered
during design process. Consequently, confusion developed
within the public and all feelings of pride for their own
heritage became lost. Urban developments and architectural
works disregarded the environment and natural resources
and created various difficulties to the public which included
the impact of heat dome, flash flood, crimes and etc. in
urban areas.
Public life became more crucial with various social and
life’s tension as living area no longer became comfortable
and safe to live due to improper planning, design faults and
disputes over construction activities. Developers, patrons
and other respective parties involved in the development
were only concerned about their own self interests and
profits. Architecture and urban developments became
commodities and issues of comfort became second to none.
The issue of a national architectural identity was no longer
an agenda of development.
2 THE ARCHITECTURAL CRISIS
Most of the architectural developments in Malaysia are
seen as not being practiced in the manner it should have.
Malaysian’s are constantly highlighted on various problems
and difficulties pertaining to built environment, be it social,
environmental, thermal or even technical. Building
collapses, land slides, flash flood, children fallen from
buildings, architectural style that is unpleasant to the eyes,
problems on thermal comfort, neighbouring hood issues,
imitating building image, and the lists goes on. These are
outright crisis which is one of the main reasons why the
search for a national identity in architecture is inevitable.
Responsibilities of the works on the built environment are
not restricted to only technocrat person such as architects,
town planners, engineers, quantity surveyors etc. but should
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also includes birocrats groups such as patrons and
developers of such development projects. In many
occasions, their voice is louder than the voice of the
architect. In the current phenomena it seems, the architect’s
has lost his voice as more development projects are being
treated as commodity for economic reasons rather than
complying to various users need. Many new younger
generation architects merely became tools of the system
with design philosophies became secondary objectives.
Common to the crisis and constantly criticised are the
architect’s profession, imitation of foreign architectural
style, revival of traditional Malay architecture and heritage,
style of Islamic architecture and various issues on housing.
Should there be no action taken by the respective parties to
overcome the problems, the issues will further continue to
pose threat to the nation. The public or the end users will
continue receiving shoddy quality of works as humanistic
values be sacrificed for materialistic values and
developments of the built environment become
commodities rather than social obligation.
Mastor Surat (2007) discussed four main problems related
the issues in the architectural profession in Malaysia. The
first is regarding our architectural direction towards
identity, the second is with regards to the lack of
architectural discourse to guide the movement, third is
regarding the architect’s roles and obligations and the forth
is regarding management of the architectural developments.
All four main problems created a chain reaction impact to
the architectural profession that contributes the crisis
become worsened.
After 51 years of independence, the quality and moral
values of the architectural and built environment
developments in Malaysia has decline to an extent that the
architectural profession becomes insignificant to the well
being of the community. The main factor of course is due to
the lack of built environment and architectural discourse
and unclear path to visualise the identity. The architectural
approach practiced were merely imitation of architectural
elements and styles from the past be it from local heritage
or overseas especially from European, Central Asia and
Western Asia. Any approach considered which is related to
the understanding of local context such as climate and
socio-culture is only done with little consideration and
thinking.
Image of architectural developments in the late 20th century
in Malaysia showed that most Malaysian architects, patrons
and communities lacks fresh ideas and have conflicts.
Foreign approach such as Eclectic Post-Modernism with
revival of Neo-Classic, Gothic Revival, ancient Egypt and
Mogul buildings’ elements has been applied to new
building without any control and these has resulted in the
spoilt images and degraded environment of our city.
Formation of style and form became the main agenda of the
design ignoring function and the socio-culture of the users.
Architects and architectural commentator seems to have
lost their credibility to overcome the problems due to
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powerful patrons and the naive ness of the public about the
truth in architecture.
Introduction of irrelevant ethnic identity to buildings facade
such as the Bursa Saham building in Kuala Lumpur,
Sunway Piramid shopping complex in Subang Jaya, Federal
Court Complex in Kuala Lumpur etc., which has no
connection with culture and history of the Malaysian
community shows a critical conflict in the mind of
architects and patrons of the developments. They do not
respect or appreciate culture, civilization and belief of the
local community but rather applied their own personal
symbolism.
In developing the idea of each development, end user’s way
of life and socio culture is always ignored by the
profession. In addition, it become more sadly as end users
are also naive about the kind of developments that they
should have received compared to the value of money that
they have invested. Failure of the built environment to take
into consideration a few factors e.g. socio culture of the end
users, climatic, site and environment of the project location
and other factors that related to materials and the
technology that are suitable to the project requirements has
led to failure in the development to provide a sustainable,
thermally comfortable and safe environment to humanity.
The most possible reason for this issue is due to
misperception of human about dynamism of their socio
culture and way of life. In the past, carpenter, patron and
end users appreciate that cultural value, local climate and
environment need to be considered in the architectural
development because they live in the same culture, era and
locality. In this modern era architects, technocrats, patron
and end users do not understand other people’s culture and
their way of life and they do not consider climate and
environment during architecture development because the
profession has become part of the globalization issues.
Most of them do not know values and ritual of the same
ethnic because they have been educated in a different kind
of education system. In addition, status has become more
important in the community. Therefore, one of the ways to
resolve the problem is to include architectural development
programs in the syllabus of education program so that each
of the community will understand the issues besides
understanding on the process of designing architecture
which is unique and complex.
3 CRISIS IN THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION
PROGRAMME
Built Environment Program discussed in this topic should
cover all programs normally involve with the construction
industries such as architecture, urban and regional planning,
engineering, interior design, quantity surveying, land
surveying, property development, building surveying etc.
The other programs which indirectly related to built
environment such as law, account, banking, property
management etc. that form the generic knowledge in their
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programme, also be part of this writing.
This issue also been discussed by Mohammad Tajuddin
Mohd Rasdi (2005) when he was the visiting fellow at
Institut Alam Dan Tamadun Melayu (ATMA), UKM.
According to Tajuddin, the built environment education
programmes in this country were really in the crisis and we
should be really concerned about it. The main thing that we
should consider in the programme is the education
philosophy. This is because a good education philosophy
will instill good guidance to our students who are the future
generation in developing the country. The next question to
ask is whether or not our graduates are able to take up
greater responsibilities when our built environment
developments and professions are still in the crisis. Until to
date universities only produce ‘skill worker’ and not
‘thinker’. Skill worker can be equalized as robot where
robots only know how to do work with no creativity to
improve productivity. This issue also had been discussed by
Frank Lloyd Wright in his critique to the United States of
Americas’ universities in his speech ‘Truth against the
World’.3 The following is part of his speech:-
“Now what does ‘university’ mean? Our state university is
chiefly a trade school. You go down there for some
specialized training. You are there just in line to learn to
make a living. You don’t go to the university to learn about
the verities of nature, the truths of the ‘universal’ for which
‘university’ is the name. True education is a matter of
‘seeing in’, not merely ‘seeing at’.
In Wright opinion, most of the students of the United State
of America of that time had only been taught to ‘look the
problem’ and not been taught on ‘how to solve the
problem’. Sadly, the same situation is happening in our
local universities today. Our graduates do not seem to have
real capacity to look thoroughly and analyses certain
problem especially on built environment issues so as to be
able to resolved problems with our own ‘mould’ that suit
our conditions.
Previous promotion system in universities did not
emphasize or require journals as prerequisite prior to
promotion. As a result there were not many writings done
by the academician. Upon retirement or death of the
academician it has become a great loss to our education
programme as they did not leave their valuable knowledge
and experiences in terms of write ups. Our education
programme is in the crisis when subjects on environmental
education, architectural anthropology, architectural critique
and sustainable architecture had not been taught or
considered for the last two decade and the office practice
where graduates’ works also do not consider those matters
3
Excerpts from speech by Mohamad Tajuddin Haji
Mohamad Rasdi, Democracy and Architecture
Education: The ‘Wright’ Perspective, Forum: Towards
a Global Perspective of Architecture Education
Organized by KALAM-Dept. of Architecture, UTM,
Skudai, Park Royal Hotel, 23rd-24th August 2003
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in the development exercise.
According to Mohammad Tajuddin (2003)1, most of
the students don’t have any direction during the
learning process in the university. They were uncertain
about the objective of the program because there were
burdened with syllabus and academic achievement.
This has resulted in lack of exposure of the real life
situation that made them unable to provide ideas on
community development. When they were asked to
design Islamic architecture, they only manage to draw
Muslim geometric pattern rather than looking at the
Islamic values itself and the life of Prophet Muhammad
s.a.w. After they graduated and become architects,
developer or patron, they will use other Muslim
symbols of architecture such as dome, arch, mukarnas
etc without referring to historiography and civilization.
It was sad because they don’t even know the meaning
of certain symbol which may contaminate the built
environment, skyline and image of our city.
Our country built environment programme will not
improve unless academicians make an effort to review
their education program so that the students will
become ‘humane and thinker’. Built environment
education programme should be taught to every student
in universities to develop understanding and awareness
about good architectural and built environment
practice. Our community also needs to be informed
about good architectural and built environment practice
so that they can appreciate or criticized the product that
has delivered to them. Good architectural and built
environment practice should reflect our existence in
our own environment or in other word it must have
’spirit of place and spirit of time’ that will become our
identity in global context.
4 FAILURE OF THE MISSION
From the above architectural profession and education
crisis, we should question ourselves on what is actually
the problem which makes the mission a failure. We
should identify the real problem or issues that hindered
the vision. We may also need to ask on methods and
approaches that had been carried out so far and we can
just ask ourselves whether we had done something to
overcome the issues. Some of the question that we
might ask ourselves is as the following:-
i. What is the mechanism that been used by the
executor of search for national identity in
architecture on disseminating the architectural
ideas since the last four decade.
ii. is it the process of disseminating the
architectural ideas had considering the target
groups.
iii. Should there any different target groups, what
was the approach that had been used to
disseminate the ideas. Is it the approach was
same or otherwise.
1
ibid
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iv. Was there any target, guidelines or certain
basic policy provided by the executor of
search for national identity in architecture on
disseminating the architectural ideas for
reference?
v. How was the respond from the grass root
members about the architectural ideas that had
been introduced?
Should we be unable to answer the above question
fairly, then we should the first mission a failure. Failure
of the vision towards national identity in architecture
after four decades it been formalized is not because of
lack of effort from the patronage and executor of
search for national identity in architecture to realize the
vision through various discourse and experiments.
Through critics and comments from public and
architectural journalist it can be summarized that most
of the experiments that had been done does not
followed or visualized the ideas and intention of the
vision. Should the ideas and the architectural products
have complement the target groups there might not
much comments by them. From the issues that been
raised there might be no continuity on implementation
of the architectural approaches. Some of the comments
that been given to address the issues are as the
following:-
“ Whilst appreciating all the sentiments expressed in
support for the above identity issue, it is equally true
that there exist presently in the minds of the public, a
lack of the general knowledge and understanding on
the basic subject matter of architecture itself, least to
mention the more sophisticated aspect concerning the
national identity sectors” (W.Y. Chin, Towards A
National Identity In Architecture, Majalah Akitek
1:81.)
The word ‘architecture’ had been abused and misused
by the mass media and the public so much so that, to
the most of them ‘architecture’ has been reduced to
nothing more than ‘building style’.
(Ahmad Nizam Radzi, Strong Stuff, Weak
Presentation: A personal view of the Post-
Merdeka Architecture Exhibition, Majalah
Akitek 2 &3:87)
Lack of managing on dissemination of architectural
ideas may become the main reason that hindering the
process of continuation of idea development,
experimental process and public response to the
searching of the identity. Managing on dissemination
of ideas to grass root of public is one of factors that
played very importance role in organization or certain
strive. Study on identifying the managing lack of
architectural ideas dissemination will help on establish
the architectural identity’s framework in further
undertaking the issues. From the initial studies on
opinion of chief executive directors from various
companies, shows that process of dissemination idea is
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important for development of their organization or
companies:-
5 CONCLUSION
This study was done to analyze the problems related to
the dissemination of architecture ideas and design
approach in our nation’s quest for a national
architectural identity. Questions about this failure were
gathered from numerous critics hurled by prominent
Malaysia’s architecture figures as well as international.
It was noted that no continuity between the architecture
idea that was introduced and the experimentation
process implemented and were evident in the many
struggles encountered. Poor management was
identified as one of the possible cause. This statement
was further strengthened due to the fact that there are
no complete recorded data or any documentation that
can clearly explain how this idea was disseminated to
the public.
The Malay civilization has developed since the early
A.D and its development was shaken during the
presence of colonization. The English colonial period
was especially instrumental in trying to eliminate the
Malay people’s identity and introducing their own
culture to Malay’s. After the independence, many
intellectual pursued their studies abroad and returned to
establish their role in Malaysia’s nation development as
architects, engineers, accountants, lawyers, politicians,
entrepreneurs and many others. However, the
philosophy and approach brought back by these
Western trained architects did not in any way coincide
with the aspiration of creating a national identity based
on locality and context. They were carried away by the
ideas that they have been exposed to throughout their
stints overseas and has resulted in the
’internationalism’ of our nation’s development. More
distressing was the fact that the traditional architectural
values which have achieved a level of excellence were
now left neglected. There was no pride to our own
culture, of which symbolized the civilization, time,
place and pattern of our community life.
Indeed the traditional Malay architecture is one of the
best architecture ever produced by our community
filled with its own aspiration and local spirit. It is the
embodiment of the technology, culture and economy of
that time. The architecture and Malay culture exist as a
symbiosis which is united to accentuate its unique
identity. As a new independent generation it is our
responsibility to produce an architecture that is new
and fresh with distinctive qualities by studying and
perceiving methods used by our ancestors in efforts to
further develop the civilization. The traditional Malay
architecture is not merely something just to be looked
but, it must to be analyzed and reinterpreted to carry
the spirit of its time, place and culture.
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Realizing how necessary it is for the Malaysian society
to develop a national architecture identity by following
a distinctive mould, several approaches were
committed since in the early independence. Various
seminar and conference were organized at national or
international level to restore the Malaysian society’s
mind towards the direction of a national architecture
identity. The government too played their role in
promoting the creation or design of building with
national identity on government buildings, commercial
developments as well as other type of buildings.
However, the lack of community support especially
from private organizations such as developers was a
major reason why there was a setback in the realization
towards the national architecture identity. In an effort
to get an appropriate architecture concepts and
philosophy in Malaysia, the history of the traditional
Malay architecture is to be made a core study. The
history of the traditional Malay architecture and its
cultural, social and environmental embodiment still
remain until now, through all its colonization by the
Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese and British. Even with the
multiracial presence of the Chinese, Indian and other
races, the Malay history still prevail in their own
continuity. Therefore the Malay history and
architecture should remain in continuity but with a
careful reanalysis and reinterpretation of its deep
meaning. Hence, we still need to own our historical
cultural beliefs and preserved lifestyle and identity to
achieve a national architecture identity. Efforts to
promote awareness and understanding of the traditional
Malay Architecture should continue to direct us
towards this mission.
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